 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pages
...recollection of his frequent exhibitions of unaffected hysteria, we accept his own confession — " If I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep " — as a perfectly sincere comment on the most sincere, and therefore in many respects the most effective,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1881 - 326 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, fof we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." BVRON: Don Juan, IV. 4. Walpole also wrote, "In my youth, I thought of writing a satire upon mankind;... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. j. BOVEE— Summaries of Thought. Cheerfulneas. eeler Hoyt k. BVBON— Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 4. Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose. Breathes the keen... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 pages
...her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, :Tis that I may...that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 778 pages
...recollection of his frequent exhibitions of unaffected hysteria, we accept his own confession — " If I laugh at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep " — as a perfectly sincere comment on the most sincere, and therefore in many respects the most effective,... | |
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy... 
